{"id":17162,"date":"2022-10-24T20:43:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T19:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=17162"},"modified":"2022-10-24T20:43:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T19:43:55","slug":"re-the-gif-is-on-its-deathbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/re-the-gif-is-on-its-deathbed\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: The GIF Is on Its Deathbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Aaron,<br \/>\nThanks for this link, your pull quote is perfect. As a recovering gif masochists it really struck a chord. I never aimed for perfection just some strange self imposted notion around file size. I blame <a href=\"http:\/\/ds106.us\">#DS106<\/a> for my may years of <a href=\"https:\/\/jjgifs.tumblr.com\/archive\">gif-addiction<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll every break completely free, <a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/autumn-along-the-kelvin\/\">yesterday an image on my camera roll cried out for giffing<\/a>. The modern way, an iOS shortcut resulted in a 2.2MB monster. After a fair bit of command line, with Eddie Kohler&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcdf.org\/gifsicle\/\">gifsicle<\/a>, I eventually opened an older version of Mac os on parallels that could run FireWorks to to squash it to 448KB.<\/p>\n<p>Although making gifs is redundant &amp; silly, it has given me so much fun over the years and I like to feel taught me a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Aaron, Thanks for this link, your pull quote is perfect. As a recovering gif masochists it really struck a chord. I never aimed for perfection just some strange self imposted notion around file size. I blame #DS106 for my may years of gif-addiction. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll every break completely free, yesterday an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnjohnston\/status\/1584631888194555904"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[660],"tags":[648,504,485],"post_format":[642],"class_list":{"0":"post-17162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-micro","7":"tag-aaron-davis","8":"tag-animatedgifs","9":"tag-ds106","10":"post_format-post-format-status","11":"kind-reply","13":"h-entry","14":"hentry","15":"post-kind"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-4sO","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17163,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17162\/revisions\/17163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17162"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=17162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}